Now our pocketknives are in jeopardy

[VBshooter]

This is getting old with all these attempts to ban one thing or another,,Now the customs department wants to ban certain assisted opening knives that it previously had no issue with,,, http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?op ... Itemid=150 This site will have a form letter in the next week or so to send to these bereaucratic buttheads If you carry a pocket folder like I do you may want to fireone off to let these jerks know we;re a bit PO;D about this nonsense!!

[zephyp]

I don't normally carry a knife unless I'm in the bush, but I have several. I do keep a folder in my commute bag that I take to work. You never know when you might need a pocket knife. As for this, I was clueless. It's amazing at what some of these people come up with. Why don't they just get it over with and ban everything - including themselves. Now that's a good idea. Let's ban the people that want to ban guns and knives, take away our rights, assault our freedoms, form a world government, tax the living you-know-what out of us, and make us the world's laughing stock.

[Vahunter]

The pocket knife I carry may bruise someone, not cut them. The ones I use during hunting season are a different story.

[moss20]

Iguess instead of a pocket knife for work, I'll OC my Kabar.

[wbtrunx]

Pfft! There's nothing wrong with the government taking away our guns and knives! We still have pitchforks and dremels. When those are taken away, we'll still have silverware and baseball bats. When those are taken away, we'll still have rubber chickens and silly puddy. C'mon! Why are you all so worried? We can still overthrow tyrants with our soft pillows and comfy chairs!

[zephyp]

Yes, but there will come a time when we are only left with our hands, feet, and stones. What then? Will they then declare us weapons as well? Uh oh !!!!

On a more serious note the UK banned guns several years ago. Assailants turned to pointy kitchen knives as a weapon of choice. The outcome? You guessed it.

[VBshooter]

As a follow up to this thread the link to the form letter to send to the reps is there ,,I love bugging them about this stuff myself, So if anyone is interested the letter to send is at the link...
http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?op ... &Itemid=29

[allingeneral]

Senate Passes Amendment Protecting Knife Owners

Friday, July 10, 2009
From NRA-ILA website at http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Feder ... px?id=5043

Late Thursday, the Senate unanimously passed an amendment to the Federal Switchblade Act as part of the Homeland Security appropriations bill. The amendment, authored by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), changes the federal law under which one agency had tried to redefine many common knives as switchblades.

The measure would exempt assisted-opening knives that can only be opened with "exertion applied to the blade by hand, wrist or arm" from a federal law that criminalizes commerce in switchblades. Assisted opening knives are highly desired by hunters, anglers, farmers, ranchers, firefighters, law enforcement and emergency personnel and others who may need to open a knife with only one hand.

"The Senate sent a strong message and made clear that the 35 million Americans who own pocketknives are free to continue using them without the threat of federal agency intrusion," Sen. Cornyn said in a statement today. "While U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) proposed changing that, my colleagues joined in a unanimous, bipartisan effort to ensure assisted-opening pocketknives are protected by the law. What's more, the CBP reversal would have inflicted serious economic harm to sporting goods manufacturers and retailers."

In the same statement, Sen. Hatch said, "Without this amendment, there is a real danger that 80 percent of the pocketknives sold in the U.S. could be classified as illegal switchblades, which would hurt knife and tool manufacturers across the nation. The unintended consequences of the CBP's definition could be that state and federal criminal courts could construe Leatherman-type multi-tools equipped with one-hand opening features, as well as folding utility knives with studs on the blunt portions of the blade to assist with opening, to be illegal. That is absurd."

Thursday's Senate action puts us one step closer to passing this common-sense measure into law. The measure now heads to a House-Senate Conference Committee.

To view the amendment, please click here: http://www.KnifeRights.org/SAmdt%201447.pdf

[Moccasin]

I'd like to think that contacting senators fixed this, and it probably did. Fact is that Customs can only affect imported knives so in reality I don't buy into the attempted banning of assisted opening knives. I do accept the attempted banning of the importation of assisted opening knives.

[VBshooter]

Now if we can get them to pass good gun legislation unanimously things will be good indeed. glad they did this ,I have few assisted openers and carry one most times. I sure as hell wasn't getting rid of them cause some federal agency had a hair across it s butt,